quotations about silence
It's not a bad idea for a politician to remember that no newspaper can misquote silence.
E. C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips & Quotes
Silence is the safety zone of conversation.
ARNOLD H. GLASOW
attributed, Reader's Digest, 1975
There is likewise a reward for faithful silence.
HORACE
Carmina
Be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
The Man from Vermont
If all the world were music,
Our hearts would often long
For one sweet strain of silence.
To break the endless song.
HENRY VAN DYKE
"If All the Skies"
My silence will convict me.
REFUSED
"Last Minute Pointer"
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS
attributed, Vaudeville Old & New
Oh Mary of silence
You pick my heart with a smile
Oh sweet Mary
Come inside for a while
Help me get a hold on you
MAZZY STAR
"Mary of Silence"
Silence has many beauties.
SOPHOCLES
fragment, The Sons of Aleus
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS
The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
Silence is so freaking loud.
SARAH DESSEN
Just Listen
Silence must be heard.
ENIGMA
"Silence Must Be Heard"
There are grammatical errors even in his silence.
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
Unkempt Thoughts
A silence so sweet
it repels all bees
with an inhuman excess
and ripples a tragic mask
in a goathead's bleached grin,
snow-fired, cow-fat, reflecting nothing
EDWARD BUTSCHER
Poems about Silence
Be silent or say something better than silence.
PYTHAGORAS
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
But still her silent looks loudly reproached me.
OVID
Amorum
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Justine
I have followed Silence from the belt of Orion to Berenice's curls -- then lost it in the laughter of my soul.
ELSA BARKER
Songs of a Vagrom Angel
If silence is golden like they say it be
If silence is golden then how rich I must be
LYNN ANDERSON
"If Silence Is Golden"